"As He Thinks In His Heart, So Is He."

I know your thoughts!
(James Smith, "God Knows Our Thoughts" 1859)

"I know your thoughts!" 
Job 21:27
Do we pay sufficient 
attention to our thoughts?

Every thought has a character--
it is either good or bad.

Every thought produces an effect--
it either sanctifies or depraves.

Sin begins in thought;
holiness begins in thought;
misery begins in thought;
happiness begins in thought.

Thought decides the state of man--
hence the Bible says, 

"As he thinks in his heart-
-so is he." (Proverbs 23:7)

We cannot tell what a man is by 
his words, nor always by his acts--
but if we could get at his thoughts, 
we could. GOD attends to our 
thoughts, and HE wishes us 
to do so. HE asks, 

"How long shall your vain 
thoughts lodge within you?" 
Jeremiah (4:14) 

HE testifies, 

"I know the thoughts that 
come into your mind--
every one of them!" 

Not only so--
but JESUS has declared, 

"I am HE who searches 
the thoughts and the heart!"

Reader, GOD knows the thoughts 
that come into your mind! 

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GraceGems has published Timothy Shay Arthur's insightful short story, 
"Aunt Mary".